Name: Fritters & Bhajis
Ingredients: 1 tbsp mixed spices (can be a combination of pepper, chilli powder, ground turmeric, fennel seeds, coriander seeds, ginger, caraway etc.) or leave this out altogether; 1 red onion, sliced; 3 carrots/beetroot/parsnips/turnips, etc., or a combination, about 200 g in total; 2 litres rapeseed oil; 150 ml sparkling water, cold; 200 g plain or gram (chickpea) flour; 1 tsp salt

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Max’s Sandwich Book

By Max Halley and Ben Benton

Published 2018

About

Where does a fritter end and a bhaji begin? In the mind of the beholder my friend, only in their mind.

Find some nice root veg, some onions, some flour, some water and some salt/pepper/spices/etc. Mix them about and fry the resulting mess in oil — fritter/bhaji/pakora/vadi/you name it, you’ve just made it. Plain flour, salt and pepper means that you’re at the fritter end of the spectrum; gram (chickpea) flour and some chilli powder, you are at the bhaji end. Add some lentils and som